It is no surprising this made it to the Electronics world... I...

It is no surprising this made it to the Electronics world... I can't wait for it to take over from Silicon Chips!



Commercial-academic efforts for more consistent, lower cost, quality graphene

8 September; 2015

http://www.electronicsnews.com.au/news/commercial-academic-efforts-for-more-consistent-lo


THE UNIVERSITY of Adelaide will help test and refine the process for extracting premium graphene from MRL’s graphite.

Prof Dusan Losic and a team of researchers at the University of Adelaide’s School of Chemical Engineering will conduct laboratory tests to determine the optimum electrochemical exfoliation process for extracting graphene from the high-grade graphite which MRL extracts from its sites in Sri Lanka.

The UoA will then assemble a temporary, scaled down pilot plant to test and further optimise this extraction process, looking at ways to maximise yields, and speed up the exfoliation process.

This is a continuation of previous tests undertaken by the researchers at the university, which found that MRL’s graphite could be used for scalable graphene production. They showed that MRL’s graphite has very high crystalline carbon content not observed in any other previously tested graphite materials.

A separate round of tests by the University of Adelaide found that the graphene yield percentage from the exfoliated portion of the graphite was more than 90 percent, while the graphene yield percentage from total graphite was more than 43.6 percent.

As researchers and the industry continue to investigate applications for graphene, the material’s industrial uptake and application is challenged by the availability of consistent quality, cost and scalability in production.

According to Prof Losic, electrochemical processing of MRL’s graphite has high potential for developing low-cost and scalable production of high-quality and high-purity graphene. This could eventually bring graphene and graphene-based products at larger quantities and lower prices to industry consumers.

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I predict more news is coming in the TECH World !!! Easy one to get right methinks!!!





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